Tobacco-lift.



A. JLDANEL.

TOBACCO LIFT.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 7. 1917.

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEErCE.

'ALBERT J'. DANIEL, OF BOONE, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF` TO I. M. ALLISON, OF BOONE, IOWA.

TOBACCO-LIFT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented sept. 4,- 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT J. DANIEL, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Boone, in the county of Boone and State of Iowa, have invented a certain new and useful Tobacco-Lift, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a tobacco lift of simple, durable and inexpensive construction, adapted to be placed in a tobacco can or similar receptacle, and having a holder member at its lower end, and having a considerable portion of its length so arranged as to be readily and easily bent or broken, and having a portion of its length arranged in sections connected by narrow intermediate parts so arranged as to t over the top edge of a tobacco can or the like, said intermediate parts being of proper length to correspond to the thickness of the tobacco can or the like.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of the various parts of the device, whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in4 which:

Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a tobacco lift embodying my invention, and

Fig. 2 shows a vertical, central, sectional view through the tobacco can, having one of my improved lifts installed therein.

In the accompanying drawings, I have used the reference numeral l0 to indicate enerally a tobacco can or receptacle, hav- 111g the hinged cover 11, provided with the downwardly extending flange 12 adapted to fit over the front wall of the can.

The can contains tobacco 13, preferably inclosed in a paper wrapping 14.

My improved liftA comprises a vertical strip 15, having at its lower end a rightangled extension or step 16.

The upper portion of the strip 15 is divided into spaced sections 17 by a series of pairs of opposite notches 18. The notches 18 are so formed that between each section 17 is an intermediate portion 19 of such length as to be substantially equal to the thickness of the wall of the can 10.

The device is installed in the can with the the step or spacing member 16 resting on the bottom lof the can beneath the tobacco 13.

The upper section 17 of the tobacco lift is designed originally to extend above the can, so that it may be bent outwardly and then downwardly with its upper member 19 above the top edge of the front wall of the can 10.

The upper section 17 will then be parallel .withthe next lower section 17, as shown in Fig. 1, spaced therefrom.

When the lid 11 is raised and' it is desired to raise the tobacco to a more accessible position, the outer section which has been drawn or bent over may be grasped for thereby raising the tobacco in the can to a position where it can be readily reached by the user.

After the lift has been raised a distance equalto a lower section, then the top one maybe bent over to position, shown in Fig. 2, and the excess portion below the flange 12 of the cover may be bent backwardly and forwardly. l

It will be understood in this connection, that the strip 15 is made of such material that when the sections are bent backwardly and forwardly, the strip will break across one of the intermediate portions 19.

In this connection it may be said that one of the sections will be firmly held between the ange 12, Aand the wall of the can while the projecting section is being broken off.'

It should be further mentioned that each of the sections 17 is of substantially the same width from top to bottom as the height of the flange 12 .on the lid.

Some changes may be made in the construction, and arrangement of the parts of my improved tobacco lift, without departing from the essential features2 and purposes thereof, and it is my intention to cover by this application any such changes which may be included -within the scope of my claims.

I claim as my invention:

1. A tobacco lift comprising a horizontal nember, an upright member secured thereto, .zomprisin a narrow strip, said strip for a :onsiderale portion of its length having opposite pairs of notches, said lift being adapted to be used with a tobacco can, havstrip 15 arranged on the interior thereof, ad- ,n ing a cover vprovided with a downwardlyjacent to the front wall of the can, and with i turned rim, the portion of said strip between of a .strip of metal provided with a series oi" pairs of opposite notches, the portion of the strip between the pairs of notches being substantially the same length as the width of said downwardly extending rim, the strip between said portions having intermediate portions for substantially the saine length as the thickness of the wall of said recep- 20 tacle at its top.

Des Moines, Iowa, January 8, 1917.

ALBERT J. DANIEL. 

